The housing question

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Identifikator:: 1023104237

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-61777

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The housing question

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (125 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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86 THE HOUSING QUESTION The following quotations shew what the Government have said about these questions. We will see directly what they have done : From the official journal of the Ministry of Health Housing, dated 16th August, 1919. " Conversion of Houses into Flats. " The Ministry are prepared to sanction loans to Local Author ities to enable them to carry out schemes of conversion, and if it is found impracticable to render the Scheme self-supporting, the scheme will rank for financial assistance from the Government as part of the Housing Scheme of the Local Authority.” Extract from a reply by the Minister of Health in the House of Commons, 3rd August, 1921. " Where houses are being kept empty by owners for advantage ous sale in the future. Local Authorities have power to purchase compulsorily, and I have urged thousands of Authorities all over the country to acquire these properties wherever they can.” On 13th March, 1922, Mr. J. Jones, M.P., asked the Minister the following question as to empty houses :— “ Is the Right Hon. Gentleman aware of the fact that we have a number of empty houses in various parts of London, and the only way we can get occupancy is by buying them, and the great mass of people cannot afford to buy them ? ” Sir Alfred Mond, in his reply, stated that Local Authorities have power to purchase these houses. Similarly, when the House of Commons was, so lately as May nth, 1921, considering the clause of a Bill to authorise Local Authorities compulsorily to rent houses, which were deliberately being kept empty

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